Smart phones these days
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I despise smart phones - looking at my iPhone 11 that has gone stupid.....
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
Peter Adam and charlieg I’m not a fan of smartphones either. However smaller screen size helps against eye strain when you have to do something “on a computer” other then writing code ( browse the web, read and post comments on forums etc. )
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A smart phone now a days has way less power consumption than what a Pentium at the turn of the century had yet the amount of computing power and memory of the former is ten fold greater then of the later. How can that be explained. Why does the smart phone OS work with less juice? The resolution is the same or better so that should count in favor of greater power consumption. On the other hand there are no drivers and less hardware resources to listen to on mobiles.
I think it boils down to resistance, as in ohms. Shrinking the transistor didn't just mean packing more into a smaller space, it also meant much smaller bits of metal being involved. Physics translates that to meaning exponentially less energy to manipulate the gates. It'd materially be even better except that we've eaten up a bunch of the gains with bloated insane crap like js.